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e got a sniffle or a limp or massive discrimination. You don't stop. You just keep going. Your terribly destructive worldview that victimization should be the primary motivator of everything — what would be, if you were designing the simulation, how would you wake up people? Well, I would have them being punched in the face on a regular basis. Which by the way I'm not in favor of, so don't want t…

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ust give it a second look. I don't give a lot of advice, but I'm going to make an exception. If your political preferences cause you, a young woman, to be randomly punched in the face because you went outdoors, just take a pause. Just look at the big picture. Just ask yourself, is there anything we're doing that we could do differently that would make fewer people get punched in the face? Just rethink it.

There was a study in the UK on representation of black people in advertising. So over in the UK they did very well, very well in diversity. So in the advertisements they looked at over a two-month period and found that 37% of the advertisements featured black people in the advertisements. Very good job. How good? It's like the best job I've ever seen. Because the black percentage of people in the UK is 3%. So although black people in the UK are 3%, they are 37% of all advertisements.

And I think we could all say that's a huge success. You know, I feel that I've reached equity and equality already because once 3% of the population is 37% of the advertisements, I feel like everything's now equal. So well, not totally. I still have to pay a few trillion dollars in reparations, but I think that's just fair.

There is a new film that I guess is debuting only on X. Grace Price is the producer. And I didn't watch it, but the teaser seems to suggest that cancer in this country is maybe being triggered by our food supply. Do you think you would see that documentary in, let's say, one of the major networks? Probably not, because they take their advertising from the food industry. Now there might be some of that advertising on X, but probably not. So X, by being boycotted by adve

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rtisers at least to some degree, becomes maybe the only safe place you can put on a documentary that would challenge one of our biggest industries. So I don't have an opinion about the accuracy of the documentary. And remember there's always a documentary effect. If you watch any documentary with any point of view, by the time you're done you will think it's all true. Doesn't mean it's true. It j…

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